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A43575	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honourable William Lord Pagett, Baron of Beaudefert, &c. By John Heynes, A.M. and preacher of the New Church, Westminster	Heynes, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing H17646A; ESTC R216791	19,530	47

due time receive us unto himself according to those gracious words of his J●● xii 26. If any man serve me let him follow me And where I am there shall my servant be also If any man serve me him will my Father honour III. Our assurance lies in that full persuasion of it which is in the hearts of all holy men the friends and lovers of God who live in the expectation of this great and wonderful change and rejoyce in the hope and glory of God 2 Cor. v. 1. We know saith St. Paul in the name of all the faithful that when our earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens We know that is we are assured of it it is not a bare conjecture a mere probability a groundless conceit or opinion no what were this but to build upon the sand but it is knowledge that is a thing truly demonstrable we may see the firmness of this persuasion in the mighty influence it hath upon them both as to piety and as to courage and patience as to piety 2 Cor. vii 1. for having these promises they endeavoar to purifie themselves from all uncleanness both of flesh and spirit 1 Col. 12. and to perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord that so they may be meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light as well knowing that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. xv 50. and that corruption shall not inherit incorruption Again as to Courage and Patience it is the full persuasion of this that makes them to ingage upon the most difficult duties and to despise the greatest dangers that are in their way to hazard their persons Mat. x. 39. knowing that if they lose their lives for Christs sake they shall find it Heb. x. 34. to take joyfully the spoiling of their goods knowing in themselves that they have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance Now is there such a confident expectation in the hearts of holy men is this persuasion begotten in them by the Word and shall we dare to doubt of it But to conclude Our assurance lies in the first fruits and beginnings of it within our selves But what are these first fruits they are the graces and workings of the Spirit within us whereby we are changed from what naturally we were and created again after the Image of God in righteousness and true holiness This renovation of our minds this restauration of our Souls to their original qualities is a certain pledge of the resurrection of our bodies and their glorious advancement by Christ R●● viii 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you In this respect it is that the Spirit is called the earnest of our inheritance 1 Eph. xiii 14. and we are said to be sealed by the holy spirit of promise until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory To carry this a little farther there are some who tell us that this change is begun in our bodies even in this life they being by vertue of that true and real regeneration that is wrought upon the Soul rectified into a divine temperament and this they think the Apostle doth not obscurely intimate in the five first verses of the fifth Chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians But to wave this by what I have already said you may see that we have very good reason to believe and expect this glorious change I come now to the third thing proposed and that is to excite and stir you up to a serious meditation of this great truth think much of your future happiness and of the glory that is to be revealed at the coming of Christ The covetous man is alwaies thinking of the world his heart goeth out after his covetousness as the Spirit of God describes him the voluptuous man is alwaies thinking of his pleasure either he entertains himself with the images of his past delights or he lays the design of some new one The Ambitious man hath alwaies the pleasing Ideas of greatness and honour before him O do you who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 free Denizons of Heaven Citizens of the New Jerusalem that City that is above employ your thoughts upon more worthy objects while others mind Earthly things do you mind those that are Heavenly set your affections on things above Col. iii. 2 3. not on things on the Earth for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God It will be of great benefit and advantage to you for I. It will raise and innoble your Souls and make you look down with an holy disdain upon all things that are circumscribed and confined within this sphere of vanity as things that are below you that are utterly unsutable to you he that remembers that life above will never be very fond of this present life he that remembers the fulness of joy that is in Gods presence and the rivers of pleasure that are at his right hand for evermore will be ashamed that those imaginary joys and momentary pleasures of sin which the sensual Epicure is so much transported with should ever controll or have any power over him he that often remembers the unspeakable glory with which Christ shall honour those who have been his faithful friends and followers will never have his eyes dazled with any worldly pomp or greatness Nay should we suppose the Devil should deal with him as he did with our blessed Saviour take him up to an high mountain scatter an airy horizon about him and therein according to the best of his skill represent to the utmost advantage all the glory of the world he would presently see through the imposture and discover the cheat for what can be great or glorious to him who by faith hath seen things invisible which do infinitely excell and go beyond whatever is seen 2 Cor. iv 18. For the things that are seen are temporal but the things that are not seen are Eternal II. The frequent meditation of this glory would quicken our diligence and make us more serious and earnest in our respective duties The Apostle makes this use of it in the close of his excellent discourse concerning the resurrection Therefore my dearly beloved brethren be ye stedfast and unmovable 1 Cor. xv 5● alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labor shall not be in vain in the Lord. What can we do sufficient to express our love to him who hath done such great things for us who hath prepared a state of endless glory for us shall we be careless and slighting and drowsie in the service of such a Master No surely